AREA WATER BOARDS
k. the Director of the AWB – Advisory Member and Secretary.
2) Sub sections (3) to (9), of section 5, shall mutatis mutandis apply to the AWB.
3) The Chairman and the Members of the Board shall not have any function in the SIDA.
31. Election –
1) The election of the members shall be conducted in accordance with the regulations made by the AWB.
2) The Chairman of the Board shall be elected by the Chairmen of the WCAs and the DBGs, in accordance with the regulations made by the AWB.
32. Functions of an AWB –
The functions of an AWB shall be to -
a. operate and maintain the parts of the irrigation system conferred on it including but not limited to main canals and branch canals;
b. operate and maintain the parts of the drainage system conferred on it including but not limited to drainage tube-wells drains with capacity larger than 15 cusecs but not spinal drains and inter-AWB drains;
c. carry out flood protection and maintain infrastructure within its command area;
d. promote the formation, development and growth of the FOs in its command area into self-supporting and financially self-sustainable entities within the period of seven to ten years;
e. advise Provincial and or Local Government on any matter strategic or tactical, related to its functions and tasks; and
f. fulfil any other function conferred on it by this Ordinance or by any subsequent enactment.
33. Tasks of an AWB –
In order to perform its role and functions, an AWB shall perform the following tasks: -
Strategy –
a. to develop, on a periodic basis, a strategy statement for improvement of irrigation and drainage services, integrated water management including drinking water, water distribution in times of drought, flood protection, within its command and catchment areas setting goals and objectives, formulating implementation policies and identifying priority and other actions;
b. to formulate annually a Business Plan setting out its proposals for its own activities for the following five financial years;
c. to formulate and implement policies with a view to ensuring that within a period not exceeding ten years from the date of its constitution it becomes fully operative as a self supporting and financially self sustaining entity for operations and maintenance costs;
Operations and Maintenance –
d. to receive Irrigation Water from the SIDA and deliver the same in agreed quantities to the various FOs or, as the case may be to other agricultural users, treaters and distributors of drinking water local Councils, industries or wetlands in the manner and on the terms and conditions as may be negotiated between the AWB and the parties concerned and to receive drainage effluent at the designated points and convey the same to designated outfall drains;
e. to operate and maintain the irrigation, drainage and flood protection infrastructure located within its territorial jurisdiction;
f. to receive drainage effluent including sewerage from the FOs and other water users and to convey the same through collector drains to the designated nodal points of the drainage system under command of the Area Water Board or the SIDA;
